Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance
Date
Msg-id 11992.1032490172@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Re: DROP COLUMN misbehaviour with multiple inheritance  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>> Has anyone given much thought as to perhaps we could just drop multiple
>> inheritance from Postgres?

> I am for it.  Multiple inheritance is more of a mess than a help.

I'm not agin it ... but if that's the lay of the land then we have
no need to apply a last-minute catalog reformatting to fix a
multiple-inheritance bug.  This patch is off the "must fix for 7.3"
list, no?
        regards, tom lane


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